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Garage-rock stalwarts the Greenhornes have added a string of dates to their spring tour to coincide with another new release, which will follow their ★ ★ ★ ★ LP, issued in November.

The band shares the new dates and new release with local rock two-piece JEFF the Brotherhood: They'll issue new tunes together on a split 7-inch vinyl release via JEFF members Jake and Jamin Orrall's label, Infinity Cat. The split will be limited to 666 hand-numbered copies, and fans can only snag them at shows.

The bands' co-jaunt kicks off in Houston on May 5, wrapping in Oxford, Miss. on May 26. The Greenhornes tour will bring bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler home to Nashville, but Hacienda and local punk act PUJOL will open that show, set for April 16 at the Mercy Lounge. (Tickets for the 18-and-up Mercy Lounge show run $12 in advance and $14 on the day of show, and are on sale via Ticketweb.com.)

Get a live Greenhornes taste above, from a performance on FUEL TV's The Daily Habit. (On keys there is another Nashvillian: Mark Watrous, who's also played with Keeler and Lawrence's band the Raconteurs and Raconteurs singer/guitarist Brendan Benson, among others.)

Click to see the 11 local acts we think you should look out for in 2011 (pictured: The Band Perry).

Talk about a tough act to follow. By any measure, 2010 was a dream year in Nashville music, and one that isn't likely to be topped anytime soon. But thanks to a harmony-rich trio of siblings, a former reality show star, a turntablist extraordinaire and eight other rising artists to watch, 2011 could be a rich musical year in its own right.

Click rapidly rising country outfit The Band Perry above to take a look at the local acts we think you should keep an eye (and ear) out for in 2011.

If there was any question, we now know for sure: The two-man art-punk cyclone known as JEFF the Brotherhood isn't slowing down any time soon. The Nashville duo, comprised of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall, has just revealed details for an upcoming album entitled We Are the Champions.

The album is expected to drop in "early 2011" on their own Infinity Cat Records. It features 11 tracks, including "Diamond Way," a tuneful post-punk gem you can download for free, right here, right now:

JTB's on tour for the next couple of weeks, and the itinerary includes a hometown show for the ages: They'll be opening for YouTube rave-rap sensations Die Antwoord at the Cannery Ballroom on November 3.

Click Wavves' Nathan Williams to see a rundown of local and national Next Big Nashville performers we think you should know.

Annual music festival Next Big Nashville returns Wednesday with four days, 12 venues and more than 150 acts’ worth of rock, electronic, urban and experimental music — and this year, organizers have snagged bigger and buzzier bands than ever before. The catch is they had to look outside Music City to find them.

For the first time in its five-year history, the festival’s headliner list is dominated by more than a dozen national indie acts — including Yeasayer, Wavves, RJD2 and Washed Out — rather than the local buzzworthy acts of past fests. So what does it say about the state of our non-country scene that local bands are now bringing up the rear in a fest named Next Big Nashville? No need to panic: It’s just that the scene — and Next Big Nashville — is in the midst of some inevitable transitions, according to festival co-founder Jason Moon Wilkins.

“A lot of the former headliners were going through a cycle,” he says. “It’s like college. This is our fifth year, and a lot of these bands have graduated. Meaning they have broken up, or they’ve moved on, or are touring and they’re just not available. We looked around and said, ‘We’ve got to bring in some more people from outside.’ But it actually created cool opportunities to mash different kinds of stuff together.”Continue reading →

Much is made of Females singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster’s merciless shredding, but we’re big fans of her furious, androgynous vocals — she throws a serious tantrum on start-and-stop anthem “The Real Mothers.”

The three acts will share a stage on Wednesday, August 18 at Exit/In (2208 Elliston Place, 321-3340), kicking off at 9 p.m. Admission is $6 for the 18-and-older show.

Seattle indie label Suicide Squeeze Records boasts a none-too-shabby track record when it comes to its singles releases -- Elliott Smith, Pedro the Lion and Modest Mouse are among the acts who've issued 7-inches via that label.

JEFF bandmates/brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall, meanwhile, have a busy summer/fall ahead of them, with tourdates stretching from Toronto to San Diego. Grab the full rundown at JEFF the Brotherhood's MySpace page.

The twosome's latest jaunt -- with dates running from May 20 through late July, aside of a September show in Canada alongside Shonen Knife -- won't have them on a hometown stage, but there'll be plenty of Nashville comfort along the way. Fellow hometown rock acts (and fellow Infinity Cat-ers) Natural Child and Heavy Cream are set to share the stage with the Orralls on legs of the tour.

There's new music on the way from JEFF the Brotherhood, too -- a missive from Infinity Cat nods to an upcoming split 7-inch with San Francisco's Ty Segall (with JTB track "Diamond Way") and two other new songs on 7-inch releases the label "can't tell you (about) just yet." (They promise to "spill the wine soon.")

Get the rundown of tourdates and watch a live JEFF the Brotherhood performance of "I'm a Freak" after the jump.Continue reading →

The popular indie music site invited the band to their studios in Rock Island, Ill., where they recorded four of their scorching riff-rockers, three of which can be found on last year's breakout album Heavy Days.

Both revel in riffs and absurdity in equal measure, offering feverish avant-punk that whips the young and reckless into a frenzy.

Opening the Wed., Feb. 17, show at The End (2219 Elliston Place, 321-4457) is local lo-fi standout Daniel Pujol, who’s been steadily churning punk-pop (not pop-punk) gems on his own since the dissolution of his former band, Meemaw.

Tel Aviv punk trio Monotonix is notorious in the club circuit for (harmlessly) chaotic live shows. You’ll see band members dive into garbage cans, pour bar amenities on their heads, set cymbals ablaze and have the crowd hoist their instruments into the air.

They’ll be in Nashville on Sat., Oct. 17 for a show at Exit/In (2208 Elliston Place, 321-3340) with Nashville-bred bands Jeff the Brotherhood and Turbo Fruits. It kicks off at 9 p.m., and tickets are $12.